Instead of asking students to silence their cell phones and close the tabs on their Internet browsers, Camal is incorporating social media into his course, Music History 5: The History of Rock and Roll, this quarter. Read more...
Photo: Professor Jerome Camal is using Twitter and Spotify in his Music History 5: History of Rock and Roll course this quarter to engage with his students. This is his second time teaching the course, but first time using social media as a teaching tool.
SAN FRANCISCO— With insistent urging by the governor and in light of a failing online program, the University of California Board of Regents discussed ideas on Wednesday to increase the number of online courses at the UC – but have yet to lay out further concrete plans. Read more...
Photo: Gov. Jerry Brown, who is an ex-officio regent, speaks at the UC Board of Regents meeting at UC San Francisco on Wednesday.
The undergraduate student government may soon have another fund to oversee, one that would be financed through private donors instead of student fees. Read more...
SAN FRANCISCO— The University of California Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a $104.7 million budget to help construct a new teaching center at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Read more...
For an hour each day, Jeremy Gleick sets aside his biochemistry and neuroscience textbooks and picks up playing cards, juggling balls and sometimes even knives. “(Learning something new each day) is an opportunity to get to do something I ordinarily would not be able to do,” Gleick said. Read more...
Photo: Jeremy Gleick, a third-year neuroscience student, is demonstrating some card tricks above – one of the many things he has learned during what he calls his “learning hour.” Gleick sets aside an hour every day to learn something and has been doing so for about 3 1/2 years.
Growing up in predominantly Hindu India, Ravi Zacharias came across many instances where people would greet him, a Christian, with “Merry Christmas.” Since moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1985, Zacharias said he has noticed that people greet each other with a more inclusive phrases such as “Happy Holidays.” Zacharias hopes to explore the topic of tolerance, what he describes as the understanding of the differences between cultures and why they exist, at the annual Veritas Forum at UCLA in Royce Hall this evening. Read more...
Photo: Ravi Zacharias, a speaker and author on Christian apologetics, will speak about tolerance at today’s UCLA Veritas Forum in Royce Hall.
Vladimir Fedorovich Markov, a professor emeritus in the Slavic languages and literatures department and a Russian literature scholar, died Jan. 1 at his home in Los Angeles, after a long period of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Read more...
